Manufacturing Jobs - Page 2

A German forklift maker is planning to expand manufacturing in the United States to avoid being hit with tariffs in China that President Donald Trump has imposed to protect American industry and jobs.

President Donald Trump criticized General Motors on Monday for announcing their decision to slash factory production, jobs, and cars in the United States.

The story of Danville is one echoed in countless communities across the country, a gutted middle class left for dead in the wake of sweeping international trade deals in Washington, applauded by liberal economists and a lockstep media portraying such policies as inevitable, ultimately good, and a win for the American consumer–a narrative usually coupled with condescending and disdainful attitudes toward displaced workers for a perceived inability to sprint ahead with the times.

The vast majority of Americans say that cheap foreign labor displacing U.S. jobs contributed to the collapse of the American manufacturing industry that occurred decades ago.

Two American solar manufacturing companies allege that they were practically driven out of business by Chinese solar manufacturers who unfairly dumped their products in the U.S. market at lower prices.

Multinational automaker corporations like Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volkswagen used illegal foreign workers to build their plants in the United States, according to a recently unsealed lawsuit.

The pro-outsourcing CEOs who abandoned President Donald Trump’s now-defunct American Manufacturing Council and the Strategy and Policy Forum will continue lobbying the White House.

German car giant Mercedes-Benz dropped the importation of foreign workers to build their Vance, Alabama-based auto plant following a report on how Americans are often left behind by multinational corporations.

Foreign workers are being imported to the United States to build auto plants, a recent investigation finds.

A big win for Paul Ryan and Reince Preibus.

Harley-Davidson, the iconic American motorcycle company, will soon lay-off more than 180 in the manufacturing unit.

A total of 200 American manufacturing jobs will be outsourced to Germany as another plant shutters.

American businesses created far more jobs than expected in March, with the private sector alone adding 263,000 jobs during the month.

Max Ehrenfreund reports in The Washington Post that two economists have posited a theory that the U.S. trade imbalance with China and subsequent de-industrialization has had fatal consequences for American workers.

Data released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show the U.S. lost 9,000 manufacturing jobs while gaining 19,000 government jobs in October.

LANSING, Michigan — Just one day after taking the stage with Sen. Ted Cruz in the West Michigan City of Portage, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence addressed a group of his hard-working supporters at an airport hangar in Lansing, where he assured the crowd that a Trump-Pence presidency would reinvigorate America’s manufacturing and automotive industries.

U.S. labor productivity has been stagnating over the last few years and is expected to decline this year for the first time in three decades, according to the Dallas Federal Reserve, and some employers are blaming the stalled productivity on millennials playing on their smartphones.

Men supporting Donald Trump have reason to be mad as hell. The economy has turned against them, and policies advocated by Democrats and tolerated by mainstream Republicans make their circumstances worse.